A young man comes to the Krakow burial society and want to buy the plot next to the famous rabbi nicknamed the Mega leH Amukos (means revealer of secrets)
(He died about 200 years ago)
The burial boss says no - who are you to want that spot? But the man Won't say
still the boss Takes his money, figuring by the time the young man dies who knows what will be...
And he needs the money for the burial society... But
Crazy has it - the man dies the next day! So the boss
Buries him somewhere else. But he feels a little bad so he goes to the Rabbi - "the Bach (bayit chadash) named after his book"
the Rabbi says - let's see what the
MegaleAmukos says (huh?) ... but
In the morning ...it turns out that the grave had
Moved itself next to that Holy Man!
So the Burial boss is besides himself
And what the BaCh says and writes down is - this was Elijah the prophet ...
Who once answered a Kabbalistic question for the Megaleh Amukos-
And so they are together forever!
What was the questìn?
A question very apropos of Today!!!
A question about "what moves some human beings to carry the Almighty's Truths to the world (kabbalistic concept of "G-d's chariot")
Its all about
Abraham Isaac Jacob - and who else?
Note:
Historically the Bach was a great grandfather of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who I sometimes quote here...
So here is a thought from Rabbi Shlomo on this portion Ruh Aiy:
Start of quote:
The world always thinks that in order to fit into society, you have to give up your individuality. The more you become a bagel, the more you fit.
But in G-d's society it's the other way around.
If you want to be part of (the Almighty's gifts) "Nosein Lifneichem Hayom" (it says in the Portion)
(that is) if you want to be part of all of Israel,
you mamesh have to connect to your own self.
You know friends, the greatest evil in the world is if you take away somebody's hope, or taking away somebody's vision –
telling them that they will never be what they wanted to be or what they set out to be...
I want you to know. The highest vision in the world is that we can mamesh (ALL) turn the whole world on to G-d.
Why was Israel given to Avraham and not to Moshe?
(because) the greatest expert on knowing what us Jews need to do is Avraham Avinu. Our father Abraham.
End quote
Late news: Israeli army stopped a Hamas gang from robbing a convoy of humanitarian food delivery Thursday night.
And
US forces destroyed some Houti military site.
And we still get rocket attacks etc.
Shabbat Shalom
